Il fallait absolument que je vous montre ca, je me retiens d'eclater de rire au boulot la :D
Merci a NoFrag (ou j'ai trouve le lien dans les breves) pour cette petite minute de fou rire :D
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
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Send the kids to sleep and scroll down.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
11/11
What happened just yesterday night and this morning in Japan ?
Of course, the release of the Playstation 3 !
I could not have missed that, so after enrolling few co-workers, we went, like many other thousands people, queuing in front of a store, trying to get our hands on a PS3.
What you may not know however, and that's what I will explain now, is that Japanese people are crazy when it comes to a console release (specially the PS3).
They want a PS3 and they want it now.
There were only 80,000 units for whole Japan.
What do they do to get one ? They start queuing the day before, at 7 PM for a sale the day after, at 7 AM.
They have experience in this, Japanese people are really patient and are used to wait for various stuff.
We headed at first for Akihabara in front of the Yodobashi Camera.
Queues like these were seen
And going on
Gathered like that
Again
And again
and again
I wonder if this ever stops
Probably not...
Ah ! Here is the end !
More shots on the way back
They thought about every possible case and prepared for the worse.
I even heard that some fights occured in Yūrakuchō....
Seeing that this would be impossible, we headed for Ueno, Yodobashi Camera again.
Much less people, around a hundred in front of us. We decided to wait here, next to the trash
You can see that they have prepared everything !
Some people even came with their own deckchair ! (No pictures for these sorry...)
So you can see where we were exactly, we could see the Pasela center from there, where a SEGA arcade center lies (and where I go playing VF5, if you ever want to drop by some day)
Just in front of the Keisei entrance
More people gathered after we arrived
Everything is good enough to make the wait feel better. We chatted with other people from the queue over Pictochat.
At around 2AM, a truck arrived and started unloading huge boxes.
I was too late to take some good pictures, the truck was already empty.
There definitely were the PS3 in some of the earlier boxes.
Like 30 minutes after, a guy came with a megaphone shouting that they only had 40 units of each version, making it 80 units in total. Our position was like 150, too bad for us :/
From what I heard (internal sources + info on the net) :
- 700 units for the Yodobashi Camera in Akiba. When you look at the amount of people, that was definitely impossible.
- around 1200 people gathered in Shinjuku (you can easily find the videos on Youbube)
- few stores held a lottery to decide who would be able to buy a PS3 :D
That's it for today. This was quite fun and I had to do it at least once in my life.
See you next time.
Of course, the release of the Playstation 3 !
I could not have missed that, so after enrolling few co-workers, we went, like many other thousands people, queuing in front of a store, trying to get our hands on a PS3.
What you may not know however, and that's what I will explain now, is that Japanese people are crazy when it comes to a console release (specially the PS3).
They want a PS3 and they want it now.
There were only 80,000 units for whole Japan.
What do they do to get one ? They start queuing the day before, at 7 PM for a sale the day after, at 7 AM.
They have experience in this, Japanese people are really patient and are used to wait for various stuff.
We headed at first for Akihabara in front of the Yodobashi Camera.
Queues like these were seen
And going on
Gathered like that
Again
And again
and again
I wonder if this ever stops
Probably not...
Ah ! Here is the end !
More shots on the way back
They thought about every possible case and prepared for the worse.
I even heard that some fights occured in Yūrakuchō....
Seeing that this would be impossible, we headed for Ueno, Yodobashi Camera again.
Much less people, around a hundred in front of us. We decided to wait here, next to the trash
You can see that they have prepared everything !
Some people even came with their own deckchair ! (No pictures for these sorry...)
So you can see where we were exactly, we could see the Pasela center from there, where a SEGA arcade center lies (and where I go playing VF5, if you ever want to drop by some day)
Just in front of the Keisei entrance
More people gathered after we arrived
Everything is good enough to make the wait feel better. We chatted with other people from the queue over Pictochat.
At around 2AM, a truck arrived and started unloading huge boxes.
I was too late to take some good pictures, the truck was already empty.
There definitely were the PS3 in some of the earlier boxes.
Like 30 minutes after, a guy came with a megaphone shouting that they only had 40 units of each version, making it 80 units in total. Our position was like 150, too bad for us :/
From what I heard (internal sources + info on the net) :
- 700 units for the Yodobashi Camera in Akiba. When you look at the amount of people, that was definitely impossible.
- around 1200 people gathered in Shinjuku (you can easily find the videos on Youbube)
- few stores held a lottery to decide who would be able to buy a PS3 :D
That's it for today. This was quite fun and I had to do it at least once in my life.
See you next time.
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